Muon capture for the front end of a muon collider

Conference · Tue Mar 01 04:00:00 EST 2011

OSTI ID:1012687

Neuffer, D; Yoshikawa, C

We discuss the design of the muon capture front end for a {mu}{sup +}-{mu}{sup -} Collider. In the front end, a proton bunch on a target creates secondary pions that drift into a capture transport channel, decaying into muons. A sequence of rf cavities forms the resulting muon beams into strings of bunches of differing energies, aligns the bunches to (nearly) equal central energies, and initiates ionization cooling. The muons are then cooled and accelerated to high energy into a storage ring for high-energy high luminosity collisions. Our initial design is based on the somewhat similar front end of the International Design Study (IDS) neutrino factory.

• Research Organization: Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (FNAL), Batavia, IL
• Sponsoring Organization: DOE Office of Science
• DOE Contract Number: AC02-07CH11359
• OSTI ID: 1012687
• Report Number(s): FERMILAB-CONF-11-103-APC
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

43 PARTICLE ACCELERATORS
ACCELERATORS
Accelerators
CAVITIES
DESIGN
IONIZATION
LUMINOSITY
MUON BEAMS
MUONS
NEUTRINOS
PIONS
PROTONS
STORAGE RINGS
TARGETS
TRANSPORT